Everybody who mails on this board seems to think the having Millions in the bank is a given. Where on Earth, or in the Galaxy are they getting all this money. I am only Trading , is that my problem, do only Bounty Hunter get the big Bucks, if so then it's not exactly a level playing field as I was under the impression it was meant to be?
Where do they get it all????????
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Trading, bounty hunting the odd bulletin board. It all adds up after a while. If you are trading its about scale, sidey, cobra, hauler, T6. Once you have 100T plus capacity you will soon start raking it in. Bounty hunting is for relieving the grind of trading. I still make more trading than i do Bounty hunting, but probably because I spend 80% trading 20% Bounty Hunting.
Some players put in the time, some get lucky and find the right trade route early, some struggle through it like myself and slowly build the credits (which I have found a good challenge). I have the ships I want to use so I am in no rush... but others would use the trading tools to speed things up.
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Time!!! money comes in slowly at 1st but gathers pace later on. I have put maybe 200hrs into it since launch.
I have 20 milion in the bank and maybe 50 million in assets.
AS for how best to make money, that is different for different people. Trading is the way to make mega bucks, but that point only happens when you have a ship with a decent cargo hold.
google "rares trading" for a way to make a lot of money quicky once you have a hold size of 16 or more
Also some people used an exploit (I do not mean this in a "bad" way its just it was said by the devs to be TOO unbalanced) early on to make mega bucks on the unbalanced rare trading before it was nerfed or on the luxuries trading which has been removed now, at least temporarily.
I have 20 milion in the bank and maybe 50 million in assets.
AS for how best to make money, that is different for different people. Trading is the way to make mega bucks, but that point only happens when you have a ship with a decent cargo hold.
google "rares trading" for a way to make a lot of money quicky once you have a hold size of 16 or more
Also some people used an exploit (I do not mean this in a "bad" way its just it was said by the devs to be TOO unbalanced) early on to make mega bucks on the unbalanced rare trading before it was nerfed or on the luxuries trading which has been removed now, at least temporarily.
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Trading gets the biggest bucks (OK, you'll have to have at least 40 tons of cargo space for this to be true, otherwise it's bounty hunting). If you're trading with 2 tons of cargo space you're not going to get rich.
In the beginning all types of activities are somewhat lucrative. You can make 200k per hour in a Hauler mining asteroids if you find a metallic (pristine/major reserves/common reserves) field and concentrate on the big three (Platinum, Palladium, Gold). Or you can go bounty hunting in a kitted out Eagle in resource areas and make at least that much.
But after a certain point if you want to really get the major cash in an appreciable amount of time you have to start trading. This takes a bit of scouting around for best trade routes (or you can cheat and use the various tools floating around the net). But with a modicum of scouting you can get traderoutes that will give you 1000 credits profit per ton hauled both ways (with maybe 1 or 2 jumps in between systems).
That said: the game is about having fun. If trading isn't fun for you then all the ships needed for the other activities (up to and including the Asp) are cheap enough to get by other means.
In the beginning all types of activities are somewhat lucrative. You can make 200k per hour in a Hauler mining asteroids if you find a metallic (pristine/major reserves/common reserves) field and concentrate on the big three (Platinum, Palladium, Gold). Or you can go bounty hunting in a kitted out Eagle in resource areas and make at least that much.
But after a certain point if you want to really get the major cash in an appreciable amount of time you have to start trading. This takes a bit of scouting around for best trade routes (or you can cheat and use the various tools floating around the net). But with a modicum of scouting you can get traderoutes that will give you 1000 credits profit per ton hauled both ways (with maybe 1 or 2 jumps in between systems).
That said: the game is about having fun. If trading isn't fun for you then all the ships needed for the other activities (up to and including the Asp) are cheap enough to get by other means.
i'm still rocking a couple of cobra's and a t-6.
but the grind never interested me. i'll get to a bigger ship one day.
did find it weird the people who had anacondas within a few days of launch though.
but the grind never interested me. i'll get to a bigger ship one day.
did find it weird the people who had anacondas within a few days of launch though.
I have barely a million in the bank and I increase that by 50k a week just bumbling around. I'm having fun and could not care less about anyone else.
"Always look on the bright side of life..."
"Always look on the bright side of life..."
Grinding.
Some people have an obscene amount of time available to be put into the game and have a very high tolerance for the mundane. They are also fairly fanatic and have a big presence on this board.
The rest of us who put in a few hours here and there when we get the chance and don't really enjoy doing the mundane bits to get cash are stuck with small amounts of cash and small ships - and are likely to be doomed to be there forever. Jumping on the rares and seeking luxuries bandwagon I have managed to get to 10m. My colleague on the other hand, who never jumped on said bandwagons but also has been playing since day one is still trying to kit out his Viper.
The answer is therefore very simple, take a week off work, get find a trade route by using some crowd-sourced information (instead of playing the game) and grind it until you get sick. Then ignore the sickness, and carry on regardless.
Some people have an obscene amount of time available to be put into the game and have a very high tolerance for the mundane. They are also fairly fanatic and have a big presence on this board.
The rest of us who put in a few hours here and there when we get the chance and don't really enjoy doing the mundane bits to get cash are stuck with small amounts of cash and small ships - and are likely to be doomed to be there forever. Jumping on the rares and seeking luxuries bandwagon I have managed to get to 10m. My colleague on the other hand, who never jumped on said bandwagons but also has been playing since day one is still trying to kit out his Viper.
The answer is therefore very simple, take a week off work, get find a trade route by using some crowd-sourced information (instead of playing the game) and grind it until you get sick. Then ignore the sickness, and carry on regardless.
An hour of my time trading nets me 5 million+ after expenses. It all adds up after a while.
Perseverance oiled by ample amounts of coffee and beer is the road to riches.
I do a lot of stuff, and the credits roll in at a very variable rate, with the occasional setback. If I absolutely must earn a million or two, I'll do an hour or two in the Type 6. About all I can handle of 'the grind' before my brain melts.
Just playing the game is profitable enough. Not worrying about the next big ship but rather roaming around doing what tickles my fancy at the moment keeps the game fun. I've been at it for nearly two months now, yet still rock my Asp. Mind you, it is so upgraded I can't pour more credits into it at its' current 30 million value. Same story with my 7 million Cobra that I take out for the occasional PvP Bounty Hunting joyride. My 2 million Adder is just a glorified space-taxi to take me to and from where my other ships are stored, and the 1.6 million Type 6 a big tuna-can. Luckily, no cats around where I trade with it
I do a lot of stuff, and the credits roll in at a very variable rate, with the occasional setback. If I absolutely must earn a million or two, I'll do an hour or two in the Type 6. About all I can handle of 'the grind' before my brain melts.
Just playing the game is profitable enough. Not worrying about the next big ship but rather roaming around doing what tickles my fancy at the moment keeps the game fun. I've been at it for nearly two months now, yet still rock my Asp. Mind you, it is so upgraded I can't pour more credits into it at its' current 30 million value. Same story with my 7 million Cobra that I take out for the occasional PvP Bounty Hunting joyride. My 2 million Adder is just a glorified space-taxi to take me to and from where my other ships are stored, and the 1.6 million Type 6 a big tuna-can. Luckily, no cats around where I trade with it
If you are just interested in credits/next big ship, then its Trading. Trade locally up to a Hauler. After you got to a Hauler, try trading rares. You will soon rack up the money. Then move onto a Cobra/T6.
But just trading is boring. I have always mixed it up (Trading, then bounty hunting, little bit of exploring).
And its not a race to the Anaconda. If it takes me two years to have enough money to fly one of those I don't mind. I flew the Anaconda in Prem. Beta and was not impressed.
But just trading is boring. I have always mixed it up (Trading, then bounty hunting, little bit of exploring).
And its not a race to the Anaconda. If it takes me two years to have enough money to fly one of those I don't mind. I flew the Anaconda in Prem. Beta and was not impressed.
Hardcore grinding in a big hauler is the ticket if you want to get large amounts of cash to play with.
Along the way from Gamma there have been some massively profitable money spinners like the original rares, seeking luxuries and of course the static supply and demand.
If you have just joined the party then you can still make plenty of cash once you get the hang of it.
Along the way from Gamma there have been some massively profitable money spinners like the original rares, seeking luxuries and of course the static supply and demand.
If you have just joined the party then you can still make plenty of cash once you get the hang of it.
If it's a grind you're not playing correctly! seriously though I had around a mil at the end of gamma so a fair head start, currently I have several ships in storage (2 x T6, 2 x Viper and an Eagle cost under 6 mil) and a 3 mil Cobra and around 2 mil in cash so about 11 mil total so not a huge pile of cash for several months play. The thing is I play for fun not cash/ship progression whatever so although my "progress" is slow it's not tedious or boring as I just do whatever game activity interests me on the day, so relax and and enjoy the game.
seriously though I had around a mil at the end of gamma so a fair head start, currently I have several ships in storage (2 x T6, 2 x Viper and an Eagle cost under 6 mil) and a 3 mil Cobra and around 2 mil in cash so about 11 mil total so not a huge pile of cash for several months play. The thing is I play for fun not cash/ship progression whatever so although my "progress" is slow it's not tedious or boring as I just do whatever game activity interests me on the day, so relax and and enjoy the game.
Well I got in launch day 1, bounty hunt until I can afford a Type-6 (protip: dont do this, just do it until you can afford rare trade spec./long jumper Cobra) then I switch to rare trading until Asp (protip: do rares in Cobra while scouting for normal trade routes, switch to normal trading when you can afford Type-6) then normal trading until Python (keep doing normal forever pretty much), then to luxuries which nets me an Anaconda (until it was killed by dev, now taken off game), then back to 1 hour or so of normal trading in Anaconda daily which nets about 5M cr or so on a mediocre route (too lazy to move to greener pastures). After the daily trade is done I do whatever, atm I do the combat community goal in my Asp, that nets me 1M cr or so per hour
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Don't forget that FD backed down on the pre-launch wipe, so there were likely players from alpha and beta who had wads of cash already who didn't start fresh on launch day.
There's been numerous free credits exploits that have run for weeks. If you took advantage (I didn't) you could have as many millions as you had time to grind.